Il Lombard hunting world, the Brescia hunters in particular, are beginning to seriously think about belonging to a category of citizens who are discriminated against regardless. We are inundated with phone calls in our provincial offices and even more so the leaders of the association at all levels, from the phone calls of our members who do not understand the negative interpretations given to the right to pursue hunting activities in their municipality of residence, since the Lombardy Region is in Red zone.
None of us want to deny the severity of the epidemic but there are many areas of our province, such as in nearby Bergamo, which are in a very different situation from that of this spring or from that of the provinces of western Lombardy. There are mountain municipalities and in other areas of Brescia where the cases of positivity can be counted on the fingers of one hand and it is not clear to what risk it would be exposed a hunter who wanted to go into the woods with his dog or a shed man who went to his shed late at night to wait for dawn and a few pebbles.
It is not really clear to us the criterion for which some activities are authorized and others are not. I can go to the fields with the dog but if I have a dog and a gun, no. I can go to the woods on a mountain bike but not with boots and shotgun. I can walk on the bank of a river but if I want to go hunting, I can't. We believe that every Brescia hunter does not make it a matter of envy but of personal dignity: it is never possible that if someone has to be the object of limitations, do our associates always have to win the first prize?
We would like an explanation, even a scientific one, because we just can't understand how a person who at dawn goes to the fields or to the shed and returns home at the end of the morning can expose himself to the infection. We try hard to make a thousand phone calls but we can't find an answer. Federcaccia Lombardia wrote a note to the Prime Minister Conte and the Minister for Agricultural Policies Bellanova for an official response and a document of the same content was sent by Councilor Fabio Rolfi. At the same time, since hunters still pay some "Concession fees" salty, we asked the Lombardy Region to renounce for next year to collect both the regional tax and that on the huts.